Improvement in medical compounds or bitters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HOMER D. TORBIT, OF WAYNESBOROUGH, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS OR BITTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 53,637, dated July 28, 1874; application filed June 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HOMER D. TORBIT, of \Vaynesborough, in the county of Burke and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Medical Compound, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this discovery is to provide a remedy for rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, liver diseases, and similar complaints 5 and the invention consists of a compound composed of the various ingredients hereinafter named, combined in about the proportions specified.

The formula for compounding my medicine is as follows: Twenty grains of powdered podophyllin nitrate of potash, ten grains; gainboge, five grains; powdered sugar, one tablespoonful. These substances are ground together and thoroughly intermingled in a mortar, or by any other suitable means, and then removed to a close vessel, and one pint of good rye whisky added.

After a few hours the compound is ready for. use. It forms a pleasant bitter, and is extremely valuable as an agent for the cure of the above-mentioned diseases, as well as many other ailmems of a like nature.

1 do not confine myself to the precise proportions specified of the above ingredients, as it may be necessary to vary them somewhat according to their strength and purity.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patcut- The above-described medical compound, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

HOMER D. TORBIT.

WVitnesses I. S. ERWIN, 1. E. l/VIMBERLY. 

